But I rather opine with Lord Bacon, who says that imagination is much akin to miracle-working faith.
The following extract, kindly supplied by Mr. Macdonald of the Register House, may interest those whose taste is akin to that of Jonathan Oldbuck of Monkbarns.
The feeling with which you would watch that string as it stretched to the breaking point would be akin to the feeling with which the dramatist watches the audience come to pass judgment on his work.
She is far luckier if her desire to go on the stage proves akin to and as fleeting as the average small boy's desire to be a burglar.
From the throat arose something akinto a Medici collar, and the skirt flowed away in plenitude.
As so nearly akin to Warwick, so deeply interested in your Grace, she is a fitting mediator in all disputes.
He was excited, and yet, at the same time, conscious of a feeling of restfulness, somewhat akin to that he had experienced when he first saw the shores of England on his return from South America.
May stopped in the middle of a stitch, and stared at him with something akin to dismay.
He could not write a line, could not even think of a subject; and, for a whole day, he felt something nearlyakin to dismay.
She scrutinised his face, then noted, with something akin to dismay, that his clothes, though well cut, were neither new nor fashionable.
Certainly he was a very unique type of millionaire, much akin to Stephen Girard.
Providence recalled the memory of Roger Williams and the principles for which he suffered--principles so nearly akin to those for which Democrats to-day were laboring.
The mountaineers of the Himalayas are in race more akin to the Chinese.
Botanists tell us that they are, or rather may have been in old times, akin to myrtles.
Closely akin to these conditions are leontiasis ossium and acromegaly, both of which are characterised by similar trophoneurotic defects.
Even the mental instability of the highest type of defective genius is closely akin to that of the neurotic.
Closely akin to these states are expressions of degeneracy manifesting themselves with some approach to regularity in periods, as in epilepsy and the periodical insanities.
Closely akin to that instability of inter-association resulting in loss of proper checks on action in the types just described, is the sentimentalism which often covers real hardness, but which charms and allures the mass.
It is enough that I should decline to follow them in that path, to cause them to manifest toward me a coolness akin to antipathy.
And then friend Cervius will strike in With some old grandam's tale, akin To what we are discussing.
Here and there these Aspasias made themselves a distinguished position, and occupied a place with their protector nearly akin to that of wife.
National Gallery) we see something akin to the Florentine pictures, and yet something more besides.
Foma looked at him, and, feeling something akin to respect for the man, deliberately left the house.
In her words there was something akin to his frame of mind.
He recalled the old man's words about sin, thought of the power of his faith in the mercy of the Lord, and the old man aroused in Foma a feeling akin to respect.
Sometimes Yakov Tarasovich roused in his godson a feeling akin to fear, sometimes even physical aversion.
A sort of chronic warfare of aggression and reprisal, closely akin to piracy, was carried on at intervals in Acadian waters by French private armed vessels on one hand, and New England private armed vessels on the other.
This proceeding was followed by a series of others, closely akinto it, so that the priests of St. Sulpice, who received their full share of official abuse, began to repent bitterly of the governor they had chosen.
Then he backs out, and the gaping mouth springs shut after him - for the linaria is akin to the snapdragon in the garden.
At a glance one knows this flower to be akin to Robin's plantain (q.
Some of the small tribes on the Caspian, continue to turn with feelings akin to adoration towards the rising and the setting sun, while on the promontory of Apsheron the white-robed priests still maintain the sacred service of their fires.
I found that their love and service were akinto those of our planet, and that these same bonds unite them one to another.
He is almost totally ignorant of anything akin to astronomy, although some of the greater scholars have ventured the theory that there might be other worlds containing human life, providing there be fire enough to sustain them.
Things happen in such quick succession that the news is hustled out at all hours of the day and night; not on sheets of paper, but through automatic news-receivers, machines somewhatakin to our telegraph instruments.
Ebony's first action was to let go, thereby bringing himself to the ground with an awful thud, which would have told severely on any one less akin to india-rubber.
Akin to these sources are various publications of the Historical Manuscripts Commission.
An emotion that was akin to fear swept coldly through him.
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